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Re: Archiver Project for the 8 Bit Apple II - Request for Comments

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<gids.rs@sasktel.net> wrote:
>There are a lot of $50 TextEdit text files that are forked.  Some are not. 
>But to preserve them if they are moved to a disk that is mainly used on a 
>IIe/IIc, it would be great to have these compressed.

So support for resource forks via a HUF2.cfg file which will contain Type, 
Auxtype in the [fork] section. I don't see TextEdit files here:

http://www.kreativekorp.com/miscpages/a2info/filetypes.shtml

>I have written a text file reader that can display text from forked files 
>from an 8-bit machine.  The text should be without formatting for now.

>My idea would be to keep the text file compressed and use the reader to 
>uncompress the text file to extended RAM to view it.  This will make it 
>unnecessary to keep an uncompressed version of the text file on the same 
>disk.

So after I get the Adaptive Huffman routines working on the Apple II I'll 
send you the code including aztec C's assembly pass for the compress and 
uncompress routines for your review.

Bill 

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Archiver Project for the 8 Bit Apple II - Request for Comments "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2014-03-06 14:54 -0600
  Archiver Project for the 8 Bit Apple II - Request for Comments Antoine Vignau <antoine.vignau@laposte.net> - 2014-03-06 23:30 -0800
    Re: Archiver Project for the 8 Bit Apple II - Request for Comments "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2014-03-07 07:20 -0600
      Re: Archiver Project for the 8 Bit Apple II - Request for Comments gids.rs@sasktel.net - 2014-03-07 09:35 -0800
        Re: Archiver Project for the 8 Bit Apple II - Request for Comments "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2014-03-07 17:31 -0600
          Re: Archiver Project for the 8 Bit Apple II - Request for Comments gids.rs@sasktel.net - 2014-03-07 16:58 -0800
  Re: Archiver Project for the 8 Bit Apple II - Request for Comments Jurai <Jurai@WhereTheHellAmI.???> - 2014-03-08 09:10 -0700
    Re: Archiver Project for the 8 Bit Apple II - Request for Comments "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2014-03-08 20:32 -0600
      Re: Archiver Project for the 8 Bit Apple II - Request for Comments Dagen Brock <DagenBrock@gmail.com> - 2014-03-22 22:27 -0700
        Re: Archiver Project for the 8 Bit Apple II - Request for Comments "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2014-03-23 04:28 -0500

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